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Department of Energy History Division researched the DOE Executiv Secretariatfiles.
Mr. L. Joe Deal and Mr. Roger Ray made available to us document
their personalfiles.
materials from
It was not possible in the time available to do an exhaustive search of
DOE/ERDA/AEC records, although we believe that major developm@nts involving the
agency have been covered. No effort was made, with the constrdints of time and
funds, to examine records from other agencies involved in the Marshall Islands except
as documents from these agencies were found in DOEfiles. For the chronology to
be complete, we suggest searching, at the very least, the records of the Departments
of the Interior, State, and Defense relating to the history of U.S. involvementin the
Marshall Islands.
Appendices have been included to assist the user of the chronology--a
summary of the terms of the Compact of Free Association and of fits implementing
agreementof relevance to the DOE,lists of officials and groups concerned with the
administration of the Marshall tslands, a list of abbreviations and
acronyms used in
the chronology, and a series of maps showing the Marshall Islands dnd the individual
atolls affected by nuclear testing. Also included are a map off U.S. Navy ship
positions after Castle Bravo and a map showing relocations offthe Marshallese
through May 1954.
Copies of the cited documents have been provided.
Th¢
documents are
identified by alphanumeric designations, which are included in bracHets following the
citation in the endnote. When the relevant information is containgd in one part of
a larger document, the cited information has been indicated with a dark line in the
left margin of the document.